# Botticelli - September 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 4, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916 "2015-09-04T17:19:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/341 "2015-09-16T15:58:26Z")
So, we have a French missionary martyr. Let’s see… ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/342 "2015-09-16T16:01:22Z")
DQ: Are you St. Ivo of Kermartin? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/343 "2015-09-16T16:42:12Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > So, we have a French missionary martyr. > > Let’s see… Listen to him, folks, he’s very bright. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/344 "2015-09-16T16:44:17Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > DQ: Are you St. Ivo of Kermartin? Nope, but I hope you’ve inspired someone to get the right guy ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/345 "2015-09-16T18:00:15Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a son of Ragnar Lodbrok, who faked your death so you could get into the French town of Luna and leap from your coffin to hack your way to the city gates? > IQ2: Are you another son of Ragnar Lodbrok, who was carried into battle on a shield because of a genetic condition that made your bones fragile? > IQ3: Are you a Russian-American aviation pioneer who innovated helicopters and flying boats? > > Not Igor SIkorsky > > Take DQs for 1 and 2 Bjorn Ironside and Ivar the Boneless ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/346 "2015-09-16T22:35:47Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > So, we have a French missionary martyr. This looks like another never-heard-of-him game… ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/347 "2015-09-16T23:24:41Z")
Don’t wait up for me, I’m stumped. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/348 "2015-09-16T23:26:56Z")
Aw man… This is what comes of my overly Jesuitical education. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/349 "2015-09-16T23:31:14Z")
Just out of curiosity, since I’ve already guessed, did he have a Mohawk haircut? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/350 "2015-09-17T01:07:03Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Just out of curiosity, since I’ve already guessed, did he have a Mohawk haircut? Looks like I may as well fold and say yes, I am St. Isaac Jogues, missionary to the Iroquois and Algonquin tribes in what’s now upstate New York. Someone else’s turn. Sorry for getting too obscure. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/351 "2015-09-17T02:15:09Z")
Prof can have my guess to make it official. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/352 "2015-09-17T03:02:02Z")
Thanks, KO! astorian, yeah, that was tough. I’ll come up with a new person in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/353 "2015-09-17T13:05:41Z")
I am G! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/354 "2015-09-17T13:27:52Z")
Never heard of St. Isaac, either. So it goes. Previous IQs: Were you a top Clinton policy aide with a first name beginning with “I”? - This was Ira Magaziner, who helped Hillary with her failed healthcare reform initiative. Did River Phoenix play you as a Boy Scout? - Indiana Jones. Were you a noted Wall Street shark? - Ivan Boesky. On to G… IQs: Were you known for having quite a menagerie of animals at your HQ? Did your wife call you “Old Man”? Were you played by the same actor who played a grumpy businessman killed in the snow? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/355 "2015-09-17T14:32:16Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you known for having quite a menagerie of animals at your HQ? > Did your wife call you “Old Man”? > Were you played by the same actor who played a grumpy businessman killed in the snow? Take 2 DQs. If #2 isn’t George H. W. Bush (who I am not), take a third. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/356 "2015-09-17T19:19:35Z")
IQ1: Did your son, your five daughters, and your stepson all have names beginning with ‘H’? IQ2: Did you insist on giving precedence to Alphonse? IQ3: Did you create Jules Maigret? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/357 "2015-09-17T20:07:17Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did your son, your five daughters, and your stepson all have names beginning with ‘H’? > IQ2: Did you insist on giving precedence to Alphonse? > IQ3: Did you create Jules Maigret? Take a DQ for #1. I am not Gaston. I am not Georges Simenon. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/358 "2015-09-17T20:46:44Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did your son, your five daughters, and your stepson all have names beginning with ‘H’? > IQ2: Did you insist on giving precedence to Alphonse? > IQ3: Did you create Jules Maigret? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take a DQ for #1. I am not Gaston. I am not Georges Simenon. Joseph Goebbels. Correct. Correct. DQ: Real? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/359 "2015-09-17T20:49:03Z")
DQ: 1. Real ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/360 "2015-09-17T21:36:51Z")
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